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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781416548508 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 1416548505 Label: Pocket Manufacturer: Pocket Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 528 Publication Date: June 17, 2008 Publisher: Pocket Studio: Pocket Accessories:
Editorial Review: Product Description: In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed, New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city. In a singular style that defies genre, James Lee Burke has created a hauntingly bleak picture of life in New Orleans after Katrina. Filled with complex characters and depictions of people at both their best and worst, The Tin Roof Blowdown is not only an action-packed crime thriller, but a poignant story of courage and sacrifice that critics are already calling Burke's best work. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Same old formulaBurke uses more metaphors than the poet laureate of the US. Frankly, it's just tiresome. After I wasted several hours reading the last Burke novel ( I had read a couple before and sort of liked them, but was afraid of them becoming the same story rehashed), I swore never to read another one, but the critics' waxing poetic over his Katrina novel broke down my resistance. What a mistake. Same old story -- Dave is plagued by demons, befriends a reformed mobster, and has to deal with an arch villain ... Read More Rating:  - Katrina still waits its great novelRead this book on the basis of the reviews and straight after George Pelecanos' excellent The Night Gardner but I was most disappointed. It is a series and makes few if any concessions to a newbie so characters many of which dont ring true, are thrown in at random without any sort of introduction. The plot was fanciful with a blood diamond /Al Queda link which was most implausable and there seemed a lot of pointless too-ing fro-ing without advancing the plot. All this is interspersed ... Read More Rating:  - May just be Burke's best bookI've read all the Dave Robicheaux books that James Lee Burke has written and this may be the best of the bunch. This time, Robicheaux and his buddy (Clete Purcel) are dealing with the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Hurricane Rita and some crimes that have been committed in the chaos of the aftermath of the hurricanes. With any Dave Robicheaux book, the plot is detailed and there is a great deal of character development throughout the book. Burke makes the culture, the people, the geography ... Read More Rating:  - Gotta love Dave!When Katrina hit, I knew I wanted Dave's view on what was happening. He always cuts through the bs to give the story the way it happens to real people. Good weaving of actual events with the mystery (as always)! Rating: - Hurricane KatrinaOne of the most haunting accounts of the effects of hurricane Katrina and the geopolitical contributions to the devastation of the storm as well as the aftermath. Fantastic interweaving of various characters, none of them exactly what they seem |
